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As MJ said in yesterday's comments, ...the older I get the more I realize that distance needs to be less of an issue when it comes to good friends.
Good friends are really hard to come by. The kind where you don't have to wonder what they think of you, or if you said the wrong thing. Where when you get together, even if six months have passed, it feels like you might have left off just last evening. Where hard things can be said, if they need to be, because the truth is important, but compassion and loyalty are always there. They know your faults, and take them in stride, and they also know the little details that make you happy. They are there through all the other things that can loom so large and change so quickly. They mean delight and acceptance and challenge.
It's a rare thing, to be cultivated when found. It seems to me that friendship, that understanding connection, is one of the most important things.
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How very true! I have a good friend that I only get together with every couple of years, but when we do it feels like we've never been apart. I should write her today...thank-you for this reminder that we need to cultivate that which we cherish the most!
So, so true. My closest friends need the least amount of maintenance because we understand that life is busy and that we love and care about each other even when we don't talk all the time. But when you do get to connect with a good friend it's one of the best things in the world.
xo
cortnie
agreed.
It really is. I haven't seen one of my oldest and dearest friends in so many years, and before that many years, with only shorts bits here and there. And the connection is always there. You have reminded me that there are some trips that I am going to need to make. Soon.
So glad you had your time with one of those wonderful friends.
Thank you for this reminder. Friends have always been one of the harder things about life for me, I have always lived in terror of saying the wrong thing or not being liked. This post encourages me to try again, to trust there are people out there who will love my charmingly eccentric alternative ways. Thank you for that.
xo Fiona.
I don't think I have heard anyone else put it so well. You really hit the nail on the head! I suppose that is why these friendships are so special and few, because it is such a specific thing.
true indeed! very nicely put.
beautiful writing and very true!
*sigh*, I am missing my friends right about now. I have always found it to be such a strange phenomena when my girlfriends and I can pickup exactly where we left off no matter how long it's been...but i think it's one of my favorite parts.
xo
such truth. such deep truth. thank you for sharing this, brooke!
this is so perfectly written brooke. it is a blessing to have such friends. they ground me and lift me up all at once. as i do for them... nothing replaces a friend like that.
So true. I feel like the last few months have been tremendously hard for me because all my close friends are so far away. Its been amazing how much better i've gotten at e-mail and telephone corresponding. Its not my favorite. But I've been working hard to stay connected
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